Drill the last 8 wells now to save the Gulf. Drill them straight down. Space them 1500 foot apart. Surround this well with holes to remove the oil and gas pressure. Draw the oil down by flow and pumps until it no longer comes through the sea floor. Do not compromise the geology. Watch the mud weight. Do not raise the density of the drilling mud too high. An intact geology is all that stands between the well and another larger disaster. Use multiple casings within one another.
Lastly consult the seismic scans. They will help to confirm any large scale fault zones and tell us at what depth these are. These potential fault zones are further balloon points. They are danger points. Treat them with care.
Solution Outline
This is the solution. There is no other.
Act to save our world.
Do it now.
Chris Landau (geologist)
06-23-2010.
P.S
Hearings: BP cementing engineer rejects suggestion his actions led to disaster. Part of These hearings can be found on the following article from David Hammer of the Times-Picayune. I have highlighted the relevant text on ballooning, drill mud loss and bad cement/ casing design, the three things, I feel led to this failure. The extra 2 casing pipes within pipes probably did not have enough cement between them, which allowed a though flow of oil and gas from the blown out ballooned formation below.
I still wish to see the mudlogs, e-logs and seismic scans.
Here is the link to Mark Hafle's speech given to the joint hearings by the U.S. Coast Guard and Minerals Management Service heldin Kenner.
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/hearings_bp_cementing_engineer.html
"'Mark Hafle, the BP drilling engineer who wrote plans for well casings and cement seals on the Deepwater Horizon's well, testified that the well had lost thousands of barrels of mud at the bottom. But he said models run onshore showed alterations to the cement program would resolve the issues, and when asked if a cement failure allowed the well to "flow" gas and oil, he wouldn't capitulate.
Hafle said he made several changes to casing designs in the last few days before the well blew, including the addition of the two casing liners that weren't part of the original well design because of problems where the earthen sides of the well were "ballooning." He also worked with Halliburton engineers to design a plan for sealing the well casings with cement.
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